{"id":9405,"date":"2026-08-17T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:14:56","slug":"mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Panda Adds Signed Windows Rootkit to CoolClient Backdoor for Stealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actor known as HoneyMyte (aka\u00a0Mustang Panda) has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kernel-mode rootkit that can hide and protect malicious processes, files, registry objects, and command-and-control (C2) network information.<\/p>\n<p>Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it identified victims in Myanmar, Mongolia, Pakistan,\u00a0The threat actor known as HoneyMyte (aka\u00a0Mustang Panda) has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kernel-mode rootkit that can hide and protect malicious processes, files, registry objects, and command-and-control (C2) network information.<\/p>\n<p>Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it identified victims in Myanmar, Mongolia, Pakistan,\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe threat actor known as HoneyMyte (aka\u00a0Mustang Panda) has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kernel-mode rootkit that can hide and protect malicious processes, files, registry objects, and command-and-control (C2) network information. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it identified victims in Myanmar, Mongolia, Pakistan,\u00a0The threat actor known&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/17\/mustang-panda-adds-signed-windows-rootkit-to-coolclient-backdoor-for-stealth\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mustang Panda Adds Signed Windows Rootkit to CoolClient Backdoor for Stealth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}